Subject: Something else to consider.
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Posted on: 2009-09-19 21:19:00 UTC
If you've referred to something without an article, and you're not going to write said article, it might be best not to link to it. Especially names that might only have one or two mentions anywhere ever. If more information about them comes up later on, then that would be the time to make an article, do a search for references to it, and add links.
~Neshomeh + $0.02
Hey all
Our Wiki is looking really good these days, but we still have over 300 wanted pages - and while a lot of them are pages for Agents, there are still a lot of canon characters, tech, worlds, events and so on that have redlinked pages.
If everyone pitched in and did a page each, just one page, a night for a week, even if it was just putting in the very bare bones and making a stub page, then we could get a decent chunk of these redlinks gone :)
And if people could also look over and check none of their agents have redlinks that would be cool too - *someone* must know who all these people are!
We don't need vast amounts of detail. We just need a couple of sentences - the great thing is that once a page has been created, people will edit it, but everyone seems to be shy of being the person to create the page.
Everyone's been doing a great job of keeping the missions up to date, and the Unclaimed, Claimed and Killed Badfic Lists, and the pages we already have are always being checked over for spelling and content, which is awesome, and huge thanks to everyone who does that. Even if you just move a comma to its correct place, that's still a help.
But let's see if we can't kick that Wanted Pages list into shape, shall we?
- Trojie, your friendly Not At All Any Kind of Authority Figure, Friendly and Periodically Overenthusiastic Wiki Admin
If you've referred to something without an article, and you're not going to write said article, it might be best not to link to it. Especially names that might only have one or two mentions anywhere ever. If more information about them comes up later on, then that would be the time to make an article, do a search for references to it, and add links.
~Neshomeh + $0.02
Er... I mean, yes, I agree too. Otherwise you just end up in this endless cycle of creating a page than pages for all the stuff related to THAT page and so on and so forth.
It's fun to make a huge, interconnected wiki, but there comes a point where we have to say, "You know, that's really not necessary."
At the moment, I'm focussing on some of my redlinked Agents, but I'm also looking through the list to see what I know enough about to write a good article.
I'm off to check all the articles that are my responsibility - my agents, departments and concepts I'm responsible for; basically anything I remember writing - to see if there are any redlinks in there. If everyone does that just with their agent pages, we should make decent inroads into the list.
Sounds good, I guess. I was just saying that that's what I'd do first, I wasn't really expecting people to latch onto it, but it makes sense.
*heads off to the Tolkien-related pages*
(Wait, how did it end up a bit passed midnight? This going to be as bad as TV Tropes.)
Although I apparently wasn't logged in for Sauron. I've been away from the fandom for long enough that I forgot how much I like rambling on about the books. I'm kind of afraid that I went off on too many long tangents about the parts that I like and kind of ignored the other parts. Like, I'm not sure how critical it is to Sauron's character that he used Celebrimbor's body as a flag ...
Number of times I accidentally used TV Tropes Wiki formatting and didn't figure it out until the preview: 8.
I don't mind making new pages for something I'm sure I know about, but I'm shy of editing someone else's work - it feels like I'm saying they weren't good enough. But hey, variety means things will get done.
I'll try, Trojie dear. Once I stop sleeping and eating I should find the time ;)
Here's the link to the list of wanted pages: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WantedPages
~Neshomeh, who doesn't recognize half the stuff on that list. O.o